What's New in Chrome 10? — Google Chrome 10 is ready for primetime and it comes with a surprising number of new features. Here are some of them: — 1. The Options dialog is now a web page that opens in a new tab. Chrome has one less modal dialog and the new Options page is better suited for netbooks.

Facebook Is AOLifying the Internet—and That Sucks — When an entire generation of computer users first poked our doe-eyed faces onto a young internet, many of us were greeted with a single, encompassing, monolithic face peering back: the AOL Home Screen. To call it a young internet isn't even fair—it was a mature, thriving AOL.

Anatomy of a Crushing — A number of people asked about the technical aspects of the great Delicious exodus of 2010, and I've finally had some time to write it up. Note that times on all the graphs are UTC. On December 16th Yahoo held an all-hands meeting to rally the troops after a big round of layoffs.

Instant Previews now available on mobile — Instant Previews provides a fast and interactive way to evaluate search results. Starting today, Google Instant Previews is available on mobile for Android (2.2+) and iOS (4.0+) devices across 38 languages. Similar to the desktop version of Instant Previews …

Addressing a Big New Audience: VMware Acquires WaveMaker — Today, VMware announces with this blog the acquisition of WaveMaker, a widely used graphical tool that enables non-expert developers to build web applications quickly. While WaveMaker is already part of the Spring ecosystem …

Are Mobile Apps Violating Open Source Licenses? — Rampant Violations — There are a lot of mobile apps that use open source software, but how many of them are in compliance with open source licensing rules? As it turns out, not very many. — A new study from open source services …

Bill Gates'g philanthropy costs him richest-man title — (Reuters) - Bill Gates didn't lose his title as the world's richest man last year; he gave it away by plowing billions into his charitable foundation, experts say. — Forbes will release its 2011 billionaires list on Wednesday and Gates …

Cash Registers May Get a Groupon Button — Groupon talks with register manufacturers about making its coupons as easy to use as credit cards — Bloomberg — Groupon, the largest provider of online daily deals, is talking with cash-register makers about adding features that would make it easier …

Identifying ‘anonymous’ email authors — A team of researchers from Concordia University has developed an effective new technique to determine the authorship of anonymous emails. Tests showed their method has a high level of accuracy - and unlike many other methods of ascertaining authorship …

LinkedIn, GitHub team up on collaboration tool for programmers — Professional social networking startup LinkedIn has joined forces with well-known open source coding repository GitHub, which will allow others in a user's network to see what projects they and their connections are working on at any given time.

Fox DMCA Takedowns Order Google to Remove Fox DMCA Takedowns — The Chilling Effects web archive was founded in 2001 as a response to the usually secretive practice of sending so-called ‘takedown notices’ to have content removed from the web. This, according to the activists involved, was having a ‘chilling effect’ on free speech.

Software Progress Beats Moore's Law — One of the old jokes in computing is that what the hardware giveth, the software taketh away. — The biblical vernacular is meant to convey the commandmentlike certainty of a set order of things. And the implication of the old saw is that chip-based progress …